Piano Trio No.1 (Andrzej Panufnik)

Piano Trio
No. 1
by Andrzej Panufnik
Andrzej Panufnik
Key	F minor
Opus	1
Composed	1934 (1934)
Performed	1936 (1936)
Duration	15–20 minutes
Movements	3
Scoring	Violin, cello, piano

Andrzej Panufnik's Piano Trio is his first work and the only surviving pre-war composition. Written for violin, cello and piano, Panufnik's Piano Trio No.1 is a reconstructed composition originally written in 1934 when Panufnik was 19 - 20 years old.^[1] and later reconstructed in 1945. Including this trio, all of Panufnik's works written before 1944 were burnt down in the Warsaw Uprising.^[2] He later decided to reconstruct three of his works from memory. His Piano Trio is one of these compositions (the other two are: Tragic Overture for orchestra and Five Polish Peasant Songs for unison soprano voices and woodwinds).^[3]

Panufnik's Piano Trio is based on the classical model, consisting of three movements. Movement 1 starting with a slow introduction followed by a sonata allegro (Poco adagio – Allegro – Poco adagio), movement 2 as a song-like, beautifully lyrical piece (Largo) and movement 3, a dance like, jouful scherzo (Presto)^[4]

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